Hi, TL;DR: update your system to latest bits and reboot.
It was found recently that some desktop caches were not updated as expected and designed. This affected various parts of OpenIndiana. As the name suggests those caches are primarily used by desktop users but there are some exceptions to that rule and even some non-desktop users have been affected. The caches affected are updated on as needed basis by the following smf(7) services: svc:/application/desktop-cache/desktop-mime-cache:default svc:/application/desktop-cache/icon-cache:default svc:/application/desktop-cache/input-method-cache:default svc:/application/desktop-cache/mime-types-cache:default svc:/application/desktop-cache/pixbuf-loaders-installer:default Here are some examples of the issue: 1) the mimeinfo.cache is not updated: $ ls -l /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7103 Apr 26 2024 /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache $ ls -l /usr/share/applications/org.gtk.*4* -r--r--r-- 1 root other 188 Sep 19 01:59 /usr/share/applications/org.gtk.Demo4.desktop -r--r--r-- 1 root other 210 Sep 19 01:59 /usr/share/applications/org.gtk.gtk4.NodeEditor.desktop -r--r--r-- 1 root other 209 Sep 19 01:59 /usr/share/applications/org.gtk.IconBrowser4.desktop -r--r--r-- 1 root other 216 Sep 19 01:59 /usr/share/applications/org.gtk.PrintEditor4.desktop -r--r--r-- 1 root other 233 Sep 19 01:59 /usr/share/applications/org.gtk.WidgetFactory4.desktop $ The mimeinfo.cache file is designed to be updated on every change in the /usr/share/applications directory. We do see above that some files in the /usr/share/applications directory are newer than the mimeinfo.cache file and so the mimeinfo.cache update failed. 2) empty loaders.cache file: I do not have an example for this case handy, but basically the issue was that either /usr/lib/amd64/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache and/or /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache was empty with recent timestamp (newer than all files the loaders.cache file depends on). These issues (especially the second one) caused that lightdm failed to start: https://www.illumos.org/issues/16855 Technically, these are two distinct issues that are tightly related. The first one is in OpenIndiana since February 2023 and it mostly went unnoticed because its impact is apparently low. The second issue was introduced about three weeks ago. Since its impact is easily visible and fatal (failed lightdm) it popped up (almost) immediatelly. To solve the issue please make sure your service/gnome/desktop-cache package is at least at version 0.2.2-2024.0.0.17 and then either reboot, or restart all five affected services: svcadm restart svc:/application/desktop-cache/desktop-mime-cache:default svcadm restart svc:/application/desktop-cache/icon-cache:default svcadm restart svc:/application/desktop-cache/input-method-cache:default svcadm restart svc:/application/desktop-cache/mime-types-cache:default svcadm restart svc:/application/desktop-cache/pixbuf-loaders-installer:default Regards. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | +-------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
